The players will be starting in the town of Loudwater in the Grey Vale region of Faerûn. There is a map of the region under the map tab.

Online Character Storage – Once your character is created it can/should be uploaded and kept up to date on iPlay4e Make sure you create an account there so you can store you character. Choose for the storage to be public.

Once you have uploaded your character to iPlay4e, add it to the iPlay4e Heroes of Faerun campaign.

Faerûn

If you are familiar with the setting, these will summarize the major events in the world since 1374 DR, the Year of Lightning Storms. If you are new to the setting, this information will give you the basic background that most inhabitants know.

1. Roughly a hundred years have passed in the world since the previous edition of the campaign setting. The current year is 1479 DR, the Year of the Ageless One.

2. The Spellplague has drastically altered the cosmos. The Spellplague broke out in 1385 DR (the Year of Blue Fire), the result of unfettered wild magic on the death of the goddess Mystra. Whole countries are gone, especially in regions south of the Sea of Fallen Stars. Even familiar lands have become magical and fantastic in appearance. Islands of rock called earthmotes drift through the sky. Weird towers and spires of stone jut from the landscape. Spectacular chasms and waterfalls abound.
All things were sustenance for the Spellplague’s insatiable hunger—it assailed and transformed flesh, stone, magic, space, and dimensional walls. Even the cosmos beyond Toril was affected. Some ancient realms returned that had been thought gone forever (such as the Feywild), and entire planes (such as the Abyss) shifted to a new cosmic structure.

3. Portions of Abeir have fused with Toril. The Spellplague raged even beyond planar boundaries, and Toril’s long-lost twin world, cut off for tens of millennia, was also caught up in the maelstrom. Large parts of Faerûn exchanged places with equivalent land masses on Abeir, bringing their populations with them. Across the Trackless Sea, an entire continent of the lost realm reappeared, now called Returned Abeir.

4. The number of gods has dropped markedly. During the last century, even deities succumbed to divine and diabolical plots or to the chaos of the Spellplague. Of those now absent, many died, some left, and a few were revealed to be aspects of already extant gods. Others lost so much power that they became exarchs, lesser divinities who serve the other gods.

5. The Spellplague left its mark on creatures. Some effects of the Spellplague persist to this day, especially in the so-called Plaguelands where wild magic yet rages unrestrained. After exposure to the Plaguelands, some creatures exhibit physical marks called spell scars. These spellscarred individuals develop unique abilities, but not without a price. Victims of the original Spellplague were horribly changed, not simply scarred, their flesh warped in unimaginable ways. The abilities of the spellscarred, though unique, are never as monstrous and powerful as those of plaguechanged creatures. Luckily, such monsters are few, and of those, only a handful are free-willed, mobile threats.

6. Huge Underdark collapses have changed the surface of Faerûn. As the earth fell away, the level and position of the Sea of Fallen Stars shifted drastically. An enormous opening into the Underdark has formed south of the Chondalwood. In addition to this country-sized hole in the earth, underground shifting has made the Underdark much more accessible to the surface world.

7. Thay has become a terrible undead threat. The former land of the Red Wizards is now under the control of a single power-mad regent: Szass Tam. He nearly succeeded in performing a ritual that would have made him an immortal being. Szass Tam failed, but in so doing he transformed Thay into a nightmare land of death. Now the regent is intent on expanding Thay’s borders so that he can attempt the ritual again.

8. The ancient empire of Netheril has been restored. The Twelve Princes of Shade rule from their capital city, Shade Enclave, in a land newly reclaimed from the Anauroch Desert. Netheril is once again a major player and a threat to all the northern realms.

9. Ancient elven lineages have returned to Faerûn. With the reappearance of the Feywild, its natives have begun exploring the world again. These fey folk collectively call themselves eladrin, and many Faerûnian elves have also adopted this name for their lineage, though they have not forgotten their traditional cultural distinctions and names. In casual speech, the world “elven” collectively refers to the two branches of this fey people: elves and eladrin.

10. Most portals no longer work. The breaking of the Weave destroyed most of the portals that crisscrossed Toril, because it destroyed the hard-won knowledge of arcane casters. Although arcanists have relearned their craft since the Spellplague raged, most portals remain nonfunctional or dangerously malfunctioning, broken relics of a legendary past.

Much of the information here is copyrighted to Wizards of the Coast and used here without express permission but intended for the private use of myself and my players only. I am not trying to claim copyright for any of it or claim any financial reward, it is used here solely for the intention it was originally published by the copyright owners… to have fun playing Dungeons & Dragons (Thanks to WelshWyr for the disclaimer)

MJ Realms: Heroes of Faerûn

MJ Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
Comments

Thanks Mikalow, from the map it looked like Loudwater was in Najarra region.

We had some issues finding time for everyone to get together for the first session. Gone are the days when we could play the entire weekend long.

The session went pretty well though, I didn’t have too many rules issues and maptool worked pretty well (using the DeviantNull framework). We had a projector setup with some laptops in the room. Everyone seemed to enjoy it and are asking when the next session is, so that is a good sign :)

Looks like the opening session went a blast. Just one note, Loudwater is in the Grey Vale region, Najarra being the serpent kingdom of the yuan-ti just to the south, though no doubt if they had their way they would expand and absorb Loudwater.

From what I’ve read you have a similar problem with encouraging players to participate with “away-from-table” activities, particularly the online aspects of the campaign (only 1 or 2 of mine actually seem to be taking an active interest on my campaign) as well as organising regular meets ( I unfortunately had to cancel my last 3 sessions through work, health and missing bodies). Its a relatively thankless task being the DM and running a campaign but the reward of seeing players/characters grow through your plots and encounters is well worth it.
Keep up the excellent work bud.